The Retreat
THE RETREAT, SCHOLAR'S HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1341428
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Retreat
- Statutory Address:
- THE RETREAT, SCHOLAR'S HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1341428
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Retreat
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RETREAT, SCHOLAR'S HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE RETREAT, SCHOLAR'S HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wareside
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 39918 15966
Details
TL 3915 WARE RURAL SCHOLAR'S HILL (north side) Helham Green 10/3 The Retreat II
Almshouses now a house. C18 (in existence by 1788: VCH (1912) 396, item 7). Timber frame roughcast with thatched roof. Lobby- entry, central-chimney, 2-room plan house of one and a half storeys with later lean-to extensions at ends with red tile roofs. Modern gabled tiled porch roughcast central with a small 2-light casement on each side, 3 gabled conjoined thatched dormers each with 2-light casement. Large red brick central chimney. Picturesque hill top position.
Listing NGR: TL3991815966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356082
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 396
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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